The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 68
Once a beautiful flower put its head out from the grass, but when it saw the notice-board it was so sorry for the children that it slipped back into the ground again, and went off to sleep.
Who acts: beautiful flower, country, notice board · What happens: put out, see, be, slip back, go off, sleep · To what, where: head, grass, ground
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful flower, country, notice board), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 5 put | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 flower | det |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 flower | amod |
| 4 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 grass | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 grass | det |
| 11 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 saw | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 board | det |
| 18 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 board | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 notice | punct |
| 20 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sorry | nsubj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sorry | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sorry | cop |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 sorry | advmod |
| 24 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 saw | ccomp |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 children | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 children | det |
| 27 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sorry | obl |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 slipped | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 slipped | nsubj |
| 30 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sorry | advcl |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 30 slipped | advmod |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 ground | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 ground | det |
| 34 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 slipped | obl |
| 35 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 slipped | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 went | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 went | cc |
| 38 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saw | conj |
| 39 | off | off | ADP | _ | 38 went | compound:prt |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 sleep | mark |
| 41 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 went | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | past | a beautiful flower | country's head | the grass | out property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal | ||
| 2 | see | past | country | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the notice board | for the children; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | slip back | past | country | the ground | again | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 5 | go off | past | country not said here | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | sleep | to-infinitive | country not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Project Gutenberg book 902 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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